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IN BRIEF

EU ENLARGEMENT to eastern Europe will provoke strong opposition from the Union’s citizens, Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker admitted this week. “The planned enlargement will more and more become the most unpopular project of the coming years in all EU member states,” he said.

European Voice

10/29/97, 5:00 PM CET

Updated 4/12/14, 2:34 AM CET

BRITISH MEP Lord Plumb, co-chairman of the joint EU-ACP assembly, this week called on the EU not to abandon the world’s poorest countries. Speaking at a key parliamentary meeting in Lomé, he added: “While I am adamant that there must be a new convention, I am equally convinced that it must be a new convention and not merely a marginally adjusted update of Lomé IV.”

WORKING children appealed to an International Conference on Child Labour in Oslo to proceed beyond laws and to address the root problems they face. “Anti-child labour legislation gets written up in books and stays there,” said 17-year-old Lakshmi from south India. “We need laws which can be implemented, and working children should be consulted before they are passed.”

THE EU presidency called on all parties to accept this month’s presidential election results in Montenegro and to abstain from acts of violence. “The European Union regrets the fact that state television reported on the reactions to the elections in a one-sided manner,” it said in a statement. “That unbalanced approach is even more disturbing because the broadcasts expressed hostile feelings towards ethnic minorities.”

THE Union will give more reconstruction aid to the Republika Srpska in Bosnia if its leadership cooperates with peacemaking efforts, Foreign Affairs Commissioner Hans van den Broek said this week. “Those who try to paint the picture that the EU is discriminating against Serbs are committing misleading propaganda only to maintain their own power,” he said.

TURKISH Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz, facing strong western criticism, claimed that jailed human rights activist Esber Yagmurdereli was not imprisoned for his ideas. His arrest “arose from activities such as separatist propaganda and insulting the Turkish army”, he told the Anatolian news agency.